She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

I dream of eagles and bring forth sparrows.

I knew Lee Harvey Oswald, and I knew Jack Kennedy. The odds against that-one person knowing all four of those men-must be astounding.

There was an American girl, Priscilla Johnson. She worked for U.P. in Moscow. She knew [John] Kennedy, and she met [Lee Harvey] Oswald around the same time I did. But I can tell you some­thing else almost as curious.

Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.

Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.

Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost.